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3200400004512878-1119600The Roaring 1920scenter595530048397301157348002483708116558500left108308700The Roaring Twenties was the period in the 1920s that?sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge.?Jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for women,?and Art Deco?peaked.?This era saw the large-scale use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, radio, aviation and electric appliances.?Not everything roared though, as this era dealt with issues stemming from Prohibition, the Red Scare, race relations, and eugenics.?Recall Warm-UpRead the paragraph and analyze the images above to jog your memory. Describe the major economic, social, and political issues from this era.EconomicSocialPoliticalThe Roaring 1920sNeed to Know Terms/PeopleReturn to Normalcy- ?After World War I, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolationism. The US economy "boomed" but Europe continued to struggle, return to big-business and laissez-faire economics Installment Buying- Consumers buys products by promising to pay small, regular amounts over a period of time/ credit, buying on marginFord Model T- Henry Ford developed the mass-produced automobile, which sold at an affordable price. It pioneered the use of the assembly line.Speakeasies- Because of prohibition (18th Amendment), these were secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally Bootleggers- Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era, Prohibition caused organized crime (Al Capone)Flappers - Young women that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion (changing role of women with 19th Amendment)Scopes Trial- Otherwise known as the “Monkey Trial”1925, the trial pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism in schools (Clarence Darrow= modernist VERSUS William Jennings Bryan= traditionalists) Harlem Renaissance- Period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music (Jazz) and literature flourished such as the poetry produced by Langston Hughes Red Scare- Caused hysteria and Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America (led to immigration quotas and deportations) Palmer Raids- A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided suspected radicals’ (communists, anarchists) homes and organizations Tea Pot Dome Scandal – Political scandal, Harding Administration secret leasing of oil-rich public land in Teapot, Wyoming to private companies in return for money and land. Public angry because of corruption in government Eugenics- Belief that non-white races were threatening the white race and controlled breeding could fix the issue (“selective breeding”), Social Darwinism, Ku Klux Klan, Nativism= Immigration quotas, Marcus Garvey- Supporter of Black Nationalism in Jamaica and US, leader of mass movement called Pan-Africanism, supported racial segregation, promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands? Charles Lindberg- American aviator, first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927 at age 25= national hero/celebrity, 33 ? hours, 3,600 miles alone in a single-engine plane called Spirt of St. Louis“Culture War”Compare and contrast Traditionalists and Modernist by bullet-pointing economic, social, and political tensions that divided Americans in the 1920s in the Venn Diagram below (example: Flappers).Traditionist Modernistright13101004521758145568007184575457002823587937800Roaring 1920s: STAAR Questions2235206350001.22472765020002.right1339560025441619966003.6205855203206. 006. 22360320581004.5. Charles Lindbergh gained international fame and became a national hero in the US when he… ................
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